Eye protector



March 31; 1925.1 1,531,628

H. F. SHINDEL I I Filed March 22, 1923 Patented Mar. 31, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT ewes.

HARRY F. SHINIDIEL, F READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB TO WILLSON INC.,013 READING, PENNSYLVANIA, A

soee'nns CORPORATION or PENNSYLVANIA.

EYE PROTECTOR.

Application filed March 22, 1923. Serial No. 626,892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY F. S H INDEL, a citizen of the United States,residlng at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eye Protectors, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to goggles or eye protecting appliances whichcomprise removable ring-encircled lenses and connected framings thereforin which the ringed lenses are separately clampable, as indicated inWillson Patent No. 1,306,367; and my particular object is to provide forloosely attaching the lens-encircling rings to their respective framingsirrespective of the clamping action of the latter, as fully described inconnection with the accompanying drawing, the novel features belngclear- 1y defined in the claims.

Fig. 1 is an incomplete front view of a pair of goggles embodying myinvention: one of the ring-encircled lenses being shown as disengagedfrom its framing which is only partly shown, and a part of the bridgestrap being also broken away.

Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the lensencircling ring on the line3-3 of Fig. 1,

showing in the rear the apertured bridgestrap offset of the ring.

The lens-engaging framing indicated is made of rolled-up sheet materialforming an expansive eye-cup a with a lens-edge engaging flange 7adapted to clamp or release the removable ring-encircled lens D; allsubstantially as indicated in said Willson Patent No. 1,306,367.

Heretofore both the lens and its encircling ring have been entirelydetachable jointly from the framing, upon merely releasing the clampingaction of the latter; and no determined relation of either to theframing has been provided for in re-engaging the ring, together with itsprevious lensor a new one as the case may be, with the framing.

The object of my present improvement is to eonvenien ly YQid and; entired t h= respectivelya ring offset 6, and a frame pocket f" therefor,whereby the engaged ring is definitely positioned with respect to theclamping frame; and I further'provide both, said ring offset 5' and saidframe pocket f with apertures, b and f respectively, for the passageofthe connecting bridge h whereby the paired frames of the completedgoggles are flexibly joined in otherwise well known manner; the effectbeing that the encircling ring of each lens will be strung upon saidstrip h soas to be yieldingly attached to its particular clamping frameeven when it is released from the clamping engagement of the latter andthus permit of the substitution of a new lens for instance whileinsuring convenient return to its proper clamping position. It will bereadily understood that adjustment of. the flexible bridge connection 7ato secure desired spacing of the separate lens frames is effected inwell known manner, as by buckle h indicated in Fig. 2, and that theparticular construction of the lens framings and of the lens encirclingring is immaterial excepting as to the connecting means thereforparticularly set forth. Entire detachment ofthe ring encircled lensesmay be readily effected by disconnection of the bridge-strap htherefrom, though the latter serves ordinarily to tie the parts togetherwhen the lens-enoircled rings are freed from the clamping action of theframes, and also to ensure the clamping of the parts in determinedrelation.

What I claim is: i

1. An eye protector comprising a lensc'lamping frame having a peripheralaperture, a lens-encircling ring adapted to engage said clamping frameandhavinga peripheral aperture adapted to register with said frameaperture. and a flexible strip engaged in said registering apertures toloosely connect said frame andring. I

l e e e et r aeap ng a pair at lens elainping frames eaeh havingedgeengaging flange formed with an apertured peripheral pocket, a'separate lens-encircling ring for each frame flange correspondingperipheral offset apertured to register with said a ertured frame ockep,and aflexiblebridge strip adapted Q eon formed with a 1 nest saidapertured frame and also tq loesee 1y attach the respective aperturedrlngs t0 the frames. 7

In testimony whereof 'I my signature. Q

HARRY HIiIDE

